Full closure of the A38 flyover \u2013 28\/07\/2025 \u2013 15\/08\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhy is this needed?<\/p>\n
The council explains that the flyover on the A38 Gloucester Road North is a 114m long, three span reinforced concrete bridge which was built in 1978.<\/p>\n
Whilst it has been inspected and regularly maintained during its lifetime, after nearly 50 years it now needs significant work to make sure it can remain in use without permanent weight restrictions, lane closures or carriageway closures, the council states.<\/p>\n
How will this impact road users?<\/p>\n
During the project there will be varying lane closures and turning restrictions at certain times, the suspension of some on-street parking spaces and the temporary relocation of the northbound slip lane bus stop.<\/p>\n
Both northbound and southbound slip roads will be reduced to one lane only for the whole time.<\/p>\n
Access under the flyover will remain open for pedestrians and cyclists. The council notes: \u201cWe are phasing the work to minimise disruption as much as possible, however there will inevitably be some disruption to traffic, and journey times may increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will also be some unavoidable noise in the local area. Activity on site is being limited to weekdays between 8am and 5pm with a small amount of occasional evening and overnight working.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccess to businesses and residential properties will be maintained at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n
When will the project be complete?<\/p>\n
The work is scheduled to begin in May 2025 and be completed by December 2025, however as with any outdoor civil engineering works, this timeframe is subject to change, the council explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ageing 1970s flyover will be closed at timesThe underside of the A38 flyover at Filton(Image: Google Maps)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,10300,4884,10302,9731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-filton","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","14":"tag-traffic-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533153113999076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The underside of the A38 flyover at Filton(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n